Tag: delaying retirement

For many, the shift from five days a week in the office to at least some amount of work at home seems to be a lasting effect of the pandemic. Recent research suggests that this shift has helped late-career workers with disabilities, encouraging higher rates of employment than before the pandemic…

Abstract Encouraging work at older ages is a critical policy goal for an aging society, but many features of the current system of benefits and taxes provide strong work disincentives. The implicit tax rate on work increases rapidly at older ages, approaching 50 percent for some workers by age 70. In addition, by age 65…